Nagios-1.2 - Trending Issue

[Tom Brown]

> From nagios.cfg --
> 
> # This is where the current status of all monitored services and
> # hosts is stored.  Its contents are read and processed by the CGIs.
> # The contentsof the status file are deleted every time Nagios
> #  restarts.
> 
> status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log 

mine is...

log_file=/opt/nagios/var/nagios.log

$ pwd
/opt/nagios/var

$ ls -l
total 76
drwxrwxr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 May 27 00:00 archives
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 May 26 16:11 comment.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 May 26 16:11 downtime.log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            6 May 26 12:37 nagios.lock
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      35010 May 27 16:50 nagios.log
drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 May 26 12:37 rw
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      25660 May 27 16:11 status.sav

]$ ls -l archives/
total 608
  -- snip --
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      34690 May 22 23:59 
nagios-05-23-2005-00.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      34823 May 23 23:59 
nagios-05-24-2005-00.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      34711 May 24 23:59 
nagios-05-25-2005-00.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      34942 May 25 23:59 
nagios-05-26-2005-00.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      34955 May 26 23:59 
nagios-05-27-2005-00.log

-- etc --

> Historical data is read from var/nagios.log and var/archives/*. Can your
> web server user read those files? I've never had a problem with
> availability reports in the 3 or 4 years I've been using netsaint/nagios
> leading me to still believe that there is something specifically wrong
> with your installation or configuration.
> 
> The cgi's read nagios.cfg to determine where those files are located
> (log_file and log_archive_path) so they'll use the same location as the
> nagios daemon.

]$ cat /etc/group | grep nagios
nagios:x:503:web

]$ ps auxwww | grep httpd
root     23565  0.0  0.1 10960 1104 ?        S    May15   0:52 
/opt/apache-2.0.54/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
web      13593  0.0  0.8 16504 8204 ?        S    May23   0:22 
/opt/apache-2.0.54/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
web      20681  0.0  0.7 15272 8188 ?        S    May26   0:09 
/opt/apache-2.0.54/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL

so yes i believe that the webserver can read those files - Other things 
like adding comments etc works fine.

thanks for your input so far



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